The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Hendrickson, March Brown, Green Drake and 3 others
Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
You can easily make this fly a standard nymph and not do the jig style hook. Just sub out the hook and the slotted bead for a standard hook and bead in brass or tungsten.
Using different colors of dyed pheasant tail feathers, you can achieve a variety of colors. You can also just wrap your thread color over the abdomen (body) of the fly and cover up the pheasant tail fibers to achieve a slender look and a different body color. I use orange and yellow thread to give me orange and yellow colored pheasant tails and they work great. I then match the dubbing color to the thread color to get a finished PT that has different coloration.
The pheasant fibers as a tail and legs are pretty essential if you want to maintain the pattern as a true “pheasant tail” otherwise everything else is fair game to variate.
The euro pheasant tail is a slight variation on the all time most popular pheasant tail fly. This fly sinks fast, imitates most mayfly nymphs and is very persuasive to the trout. Here is the classic take with a small hotspot of a pheasant tail. I like to add a hotspot to attract the fish, though it isn’t necessary. The jig style means it floats hook point up keeping the fly from getting snagged on the bottom as much.
You can’t go wrong with this fly on your line. Anywhere, anytime, it’s just one of those flies that the fish are always willing to consider. I seem to have my best luck on them during the spring to fall and they work as any fly on a 1,2 or 3 part rig including a great dry dropper option if you fish that technique. The only real tip is to fish it often and tie a variety of sizes.
| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: Northwest
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: East
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: Midwest
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest, Midwest
Green Drake Sizes: #8 - #14
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Region: East
Green Drake Sizes: #8 - #14
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East, Midwest
Hendrickson Sizes: #10 - #16
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Southeast
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Midwest
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, East
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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Region: Northwest
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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Region: Midwest
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest
Skwala Stone Sizes: #12 - #16
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